FAF Instant crash (no lobby) unable to create effect: (...)\effects.nx2\effects\range.fx

[Frozen-byte]

Heyho, I recently updated my Linux to Ubuntu 23.04 and now FAF-Client does not launch the game anymore.
This is a cross-post from https://forum.faforever.com/topic/6001/faf-instant-crash-no-lobby-unable-to-create-effect-effects-nx2-effects-range-fx I will keep them in sync.

Playing via Steam works fine, only when I try to host/watch/ladder a game via FAF the Game instantly crashes. Last (and I guess relevant) log:

info: Compiled shader: /effects/primbatcher.fx
warning: z:\home\%USER%\.faforever\gamedata\effects.nx2\effects\range.fx: unable to create effect: z:\home\%USER%\.faforever\gamedata\effects.nx2\effects\range.fx reason: unknown error

What I have tried so far:

1. Reinstalled FAF and SupCom completely
2. sudo apt install git wget jq cabextract libxcomposite1:amd64 libxcomposite1:i386 libfreetype6:amd64 libfreetype6:i386 tells me everything is installed on lates version.
3. Used protonwrapper 'GE-55' and 'SteamExperimental'
4. Sometimes, it crashes at primbatcher.fx, somtimes at sky.fx but its always in proximitry to range.fx

[UTFTymoteusz]

I'm getting the same issues on Arch.

[nikolaevigor]

same on manjaro

[iczero]

Collected solutions from the discord thread, in no particular order:

• In launchwrapper, add /windowed 1920 1080 at the end of the last line (the one beginning with exec)
• Export the environment variable DXVK_STATE_CACHE=disable before ./run (i.e. DXVK_STATE_CACHE=disable ./run)
• Export DXVK_STATE_CACHE=reset instead
• Delete the dxvk cache file in dxvk-cache/
• Update dxvk to a newer version (./update-component.sh dxvk 2.2, replacing 2.2 with another version)
• Switch to another GPU vendor

I have not had much time to work on this recently, and I apologize for that. These solutions have sometimes worked for various people and may not work for you. If you have found another way, please post it here or in the discord thread.